[2Jedismom]

You know, I've had trouble with my city water for a long time...it would be absolutely brown, you know? And then I'd get these notices in the mail about how it failed standards?

So we started drinking bottled water, making coffee with it and such, but I still made ice cubes out of tap water. (Or rather Matthew did...I pay him 25 cents per 3 ice trays.)

Until the day I turned on the tap in the tub and *black* water poured out. Black as night. You could scoop the black up off the bottom of the tub. Then I started making ice with (Walmart) bottled water too.

Well, then Steve got me a water crock from Christmas and I started buying our water from this place called "Water on the Run"...a water treatment and filtering store. I get the water for 27 cents a gallon there, in my own 5 gallon bottles.

Ok...so Matthew started making ice and it started forming "Ice Spikes"! Freaked me out at first but then I found that this isn't that unusual with "bottled" water...

Ice Spikes

I'm basically assured that I'm getting what I'm paying for from the water filtering store...the ice wouldn't behave this way if they were just selling me plain tap water.

My Walmart bottled water *never* formed ice spikes...

[2Jedismom]

ping to 615

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm a little alarmed that your water coming from the tap is brown or black in the first place.

[RMDupree]

That's neat. Time for a new homeschool experiment?

[Overtaxed]

Hmmmm....black water. At the water treatment plant, they had water mixed with carbon as part of the treatment process....

[Peanut Gallery]

That is interesting!

Was the Walmart water advertised as distilled water? Hmm, sounds like they are just bottling "clean" tap water to sell as drinking water.

(It's just scary about your local water supply. You would think that they would cut Tulsa's water company. We NEVER HAD brackish or even black water issues. Maybe times have changed? That was over 15 years ago afterall.)